I have a flat with a cold water tank in the loft space, which feeds into an indirect (coil) heated cylinder in my airing cupboard. Hot water pressure has never been great, but acceptable.
A couple of ...

I have an oil burning furnace and my hot water only lasts about 2 minutes, making it hard to take a shower.
I'm not sure what the make and model is. I had hot water that would last a long time, had ...

I want to get a hot water recirculation line added to a house. plumber is proposing a timer to turn on/off the pump.
I'm thinking a motion sensor method would be better. are these even common and how ...

I have a Vaillant ecotec pro 28 boiler and the pressure is too high when the heating or hot water is on. It flashes at between 3.2 and 4 bar.
After searching online the suggestions were to vent any ...

I have a water faucet in my utility room that is about 10 feet from the water heater. It is the only faucet in my house that makes any noise, but when I turn the hot water on even a little bit it will ...

We just got home from a weekend away. We actually dropped the house temperature while we were away from 70 C to 58 C (outside it was actually the coldest its been all season (-30 C)
When we got home ...

A little while ago our totally fine bath/shower tap unit broke in our bath. Our landlord's plumber installed a new one and since then we've had big problems. Steps to reproduce:
We get in the shower, ...

I'm planning a complete refit of my bathroom, hopefully converting to a wet room, and I just wanted to get some idea of my options.
The bathroom is (sadly) very small, around 1.7m x 2.3m. This is not ...

Our hot water seems to be running out faster than usual, and thanks to this site, we were guessing that we probably have a broken dip tube in our gas water heater. Unfortunately, someone in the past ...

I have an apartment in an older building. The boiler apparently was recently replaced by the building manager in the past few years, but every time I take a shower, the temperature changes are pretty ...

A gas/propane water heater in a garage is elevated. This is to ensure the open flame (at the bottom) is above a certain height (?) to avoid any combustible fuels in the garage from igniting.
This all ...

My wife and I are thinking about buying a funky old house where we live, in southern Ontario, and trying to prioritize upgrades. There's a lot of knob and tube to replace -- top priority -- and some ...

My boiler is giving me some real problems, for whatever reason, it's not resetting as it should. I ran out of gas last night and since ice put some on and tried to reset, it still thinks there is a ...

When I run the hot water to the bathroom sink, as soon as the water starts to heat up, the tap just stops, and I have to give the top bit a few more turns to get it flowing again. It will then usually ...

Just noticed that the upstairs hot water tank is firing, and there is a bunch of water on the basement floor. (This is a duplex, and no one is living upstairs right now.)
So my first thought was just ...

we live in a 7 flat building with a basement for hot water and warming radiators.
Sometimes water of kitchen (hot pipe) is very hot and water of shower (hot pipe) is very cold and I wonder why this ...

I'm not from the UK and am used to water being heated on-demand by a gas heater.
Having recently moved to London, the flat has electrical heating and I cannot figure out how I'm supposed to set this ...

we have hot water in all other parts of the house, but not in the kitchen? the water will come through cold and not become hot. If we turn the laundry hot water on, it will turn the kitchen hot water ...

I'm sorry if this isn't the right forum in which to discuss this, but I'm at the end of my rope and don't know where else to get advice.
I'm living in a completely new building that was just finished ...

I am in the process of getting my boiler and hot water heater replaced. One company gave me a quote for a Weil McLain boiler and indirect hot water heater. Another company gave me a quote for a bosh ...

This American Standard faucet worked yesterday. But today, water barely trickles from it.
I can rotate it just fine and when I rotate it shut, the trickle stops. My gut feeling is that it catches in ...

We have an issue with the hot water from a 2004 Peerless oil furnace with on-demand hot water. The shower starts at full temp, but quickly goes tepid (too cool for a bath/shower, but not ice-cold) and ...